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 Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This Week we are opening the doors and sharing YOUR stories back to you! We start off with Joe's story of his childhood house filled with monsters, shadows and so much more.  Then Danny kicks it into high gear with his recorded story of a truly haunted doll...That may have even tried to kill him. Finally, we wrap it up with a h...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Zach is taking us to the center of the earth! We turn our attention below our feet and follow a breathtaking trail through ancient myth, Enlightenment science, wartime secrets, and modern UFO lore to ask whether an advanced civilization could be thriving inside the Earth. Greek gateways to the underworld, May...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Curator Kara is taking us under the Sea and into the Stars. A quiet harbor. Four steady lights on the water. Yellow foam blooming across the surface as something descends without a splash. We revisit the Shag Harbor incident of 1967—not as a dusty legend, but as a near‑perfect template for how we think about USOs and tran...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Zach is going to keep you  up at night The clock flips to 3:00 and the room feels different, quieter, heavier, charged. Is that the veil thinning or just your brain finally quiet enough to notice what’s always there? We dive deep into the witching hour with a mix of curiosity, folklore, and hard science, aski...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Curator Kara has cult story that will make  your skin crawl...with ants! What happens when a childhood shaped by violence meets a hunger for absolute authority? We follow the rise and collapse of the Anthill Kids, the Canadian cult built by Roch Thériault, a man who reinvented himself as a prophet after being rejected by...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Zach Is telling the dark tale of the plague! Twelve ships slid into Messina’s harbor and history snapped. We follow the Black Death from its quiet beginnings in Central Asian rodents to the siege of Kaffa, where corpses were catapulted over walls and panic sailed for Sicily.  What arrived in 1347 was more tha...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Curator Kara has another movie review: "The Ring". A voice counts to nine, pauses, and screams. That image pulls us from modern horror back to a legend that refuses to be quiet, as we explore the eerie thread connecting The Ring to the story of Okiku and the ten plates at Himeji Castle. We open with a simple que...

Welcome to the Oddity Shop. This Month, While we start to make new episodes for 2026, please enjoy some of our Favorite Guest Episodes that got buried in with the backstock! Up This Week: Our Conversation with TikTok Famous Lauren The Mortician Get All Your Spiritual Supplies From Mystic Moons On Etsy , or Check out their Facebook Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a ca...

Welcome to the Oddity Shop. This Month, While we start to make new episodes for 2026, please enjoy some of our Favorite Guest Episodes that got buried in with the backstock! Up This Week: Our Conversation with  Exie Smith Get All Your Spiritual Supplies From Mystic Moons On Etsy , or Check out their Facebook Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemai...

Welcome to the Oddity Shop. This Month, While we start to make new episodes for 2026, please enjoy some of our Favorite Guest Episodes that got buried in with the backstock! Up This Week: Our Conversation with the Sam Baltrusis!  Get All Your Spiritual Supplies From Mystic Moons On Etsy , or Check out their Facebook Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a...

Welcome to the Oddity Shop. This Month, While we start to make new episodes for 2026, please enjoy some of our Favorite Guest Episodes that got buried in with the backstock! Up This Week: Our Conversation with the amazing, Lauren Haunts Get All Your Spiritual Supplies From Mystic Moons On Etsy , or Check out their Facebook Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and l...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Curator Zach is Springing you into the New Year with some wild traditions Midnight isn’t just a timestamp; it’s a thin place where old stories exhale and new ones rush in. We packed our bags and crossed borders to explore how different cultures welcome the year: by smashing plates, hanging onions, racing with suitcases, c...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Christmas, your Curator Kara is gifting us all a Michigan True Crime Story. \We revisit the Michigan co-ed murders across Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti in the late 1960s, where a clean-cut college student hid behind charm and familiarity while women disappeared. This isn’t a lurid deep-dive into a killer’s mystique. It’s a careful re...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Zach has a Dark Christmas Cannibal Legend. Somewhere in the borderlands between France and Germany a scarecrow waits by the road. We follow the threads of Hans Trapp, the “Christmas cannibal,” from his roots in the very real Hans von Trotha. A petty, powerful baron who feuded with an abbey and defied the Pope...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Kara Has Gone Mad with Nellie Bly We open the doors to Blackwell’s Island, once home to New York’s almshouse, workhouse, penitentiary, and the infamous asylum, and follow the razor‑sharp path of Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, better known as Nellie Bly, whose undercover reporting forced the public to look straight...

Welcome to a Very Special Episode of The Oddity Shop! In The Shop This Week we have a special guest: Adventurer, Author, Speaker, And So Much More - Jeff Belanger! What if the ghost’s unfinished business isn’t theirs at all, but ours? We sit down with author, researcher, and longtime Ghost Adventures writer Jeff Belanger for a fast, funny, and deeply humane tour of the paranormal that treats legen...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Zach has a Tale of Madison Ohios Haunted Seminary. Step into the seminary’s timeline: a mid-1800s school that became a Civil War refuge, a home for veterans and nurses under the Ohio Women’s Relief Corps, and later a patchwork of care facilities, government offices, and a work-release site. Each era left a di...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Kara is Cracking into the Fox Sister's Story. Two sisters who turned raps in the dark into a movement that rewrote how we grieve. We follow Maggie and Kate Fox from Hydesville’s tiny room to roaring theaters, where audiences asked questions and the walls answered back. As their older sister Leah took the...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Zach has chilling tale of Survival and Tenacity. A bad day can spiral fast. Were heading to 1972 and a chartered flight over the Andes that never made its landing. The crash of Flight 571 left a rugby team, family, and friends in brutal cold with little food, less shelter, and a strong will to survive. What f...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Kara is talking about corn...and witches!  The fields get quiet first. Then the air thins, the leaves rasp, and every step seems to wake something older than the rows. We follow that feeling straight into the legend of the Corn Husk Witch, a figure braided from European harvest rites, Native American teaching...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  Today, We have for you, our Annual Halloween Special Episode!!!  Its our favorite day of the year.  The Oddity Shop door creaks open and you get to choose what’s waiting on the other side. We turned Halloween into a haunted house showdown, pitting three legendary locations against each other and asking you to crown the scariest: The...

Welcome to a Very Special Episode of The Oddity Shop! In The Shop This Week we have a special guest: Investigator And Haunted Hardware Creator - Jeff Fent!  Jeff Fent is a respected paranormal investigator, preservationist, and caretaker known for his dedicated work maintaining and restoring historic haunted locations such as Madison Seminary , The Enchanted Church , and several other reportedly h...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Zach has the Tale of Ouija's Origins. A century ago, a simple board promised something enormous: a chance to keep talking after goodbye. We follow that promise from candlelit parlors to factory floors, then through a single film that rewired an entire culture’s imagination. Along the way we meet the Fox...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Kara has a Possession Story guaranteed to give you chills A boy “walked” up a hospital wall, nurses took notes, and a police captain left a rental house convinced something was terribly wrong. We trace the Gary, Indiana Demon House case from its first oddities—swarms of black flies in midwinter, booted steps...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Zach has the Slavic Lor of the Leshy. The Leshy is a powerful woodland spirit from Slavic folklore who protects the forest and punishes those who disrespect nature. This shapeshifting entity exists in a state of duality, neither wholly good nor evil, embodying the wild and unpredictable essence of the forest...